I think it’s tough to blame Amazon here. p4d server hardware costs around 100k and they were almost certainly having countless hours of use on these by stolen a

I think it’s tough to blame Amazon here. p4d server hardware costs around 100k and they were almost certainly having countless hours of use on these by stolen aws accounts and credit cards. This doesn’t excuse the requirement to specify region and instance types in advance. The region part at least can be explained by the fact that Amazon tries to make regions as independent as possible.